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Old 21-10-2010, 23:43   #390
Andrewcrawford23
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV

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Originally Posted by mersey70 View Post
Sky will need to get Astra or whoever to launch a few more satellites before they can do it, or compression will have to come on leaps and bounds. Can you imagine the cost of renting transponders for a full HD service?

I cannot see the endless shopping, religious or any low budget broadcaster for that matter having any urgent need to go HD. 405 line VHF was around for 15 years+ after 625 line UHF was introduced and we were only talking a handful of channels not hundreds.
3 new satillete all dvb-s2 with enoguh capicty to launch in the regiosn off 800+ hd channels will be online by 2014 and the satillete are owned by itv/bbc as with astra so expect a freesat boom aorund then but dnt expect hd switchove then it will still be some time away
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